What a difference a new day makes. Remember: every day is a new day. A new day is a fresh start. You can do everything right, one new day at a time. Some days won’t be good or won’t go the way you wanted and planned and even fought for. But most of them will.
I had the same dinner today that I had yesterday. But because my head was in the right place, it was a satisfying experience today and I didn’t want any more afterwards.
My food intake and calorie count
Breakfast – sandwich with bagel (330); 2x Canadian bacon (40); Muenster cheese (70)
- 440 calories
Lunch – wrap with 6x meatballs (47); 2T hummus (70); 1.5x Ole wraps (50);
- 425 calories
Dinner – 10oz Nachos (450); 1oz chips (150); sour cream (70);
- 670 calories
Snacking – Nectarine (30);
- 30 calories
Total for the day: 1560 calories (limit 1700)
If
If you are properly hungry (physically hungry) when you sit down for dinner, you will enjoy the experience of the first few bites the most. If you are TOO hungry then you might wolf those first few bites down and not really enjoy them. Take time with those first few bites. The rest of your meal will never be quite as good. That’s why going back for seconds is a bad idea – you will never recapture those first few bites until you have time to become hungry again.
If you sit down to eat and you are not particularly hungry – physically craving the food and feeling like your stomach is empty – then eating is a bad idea. You should question why you are doing it at all. It’s important that your call to a meal should be physical. Otherwise you risk starting to eat for the wrong reasons. You may go out of control, and over the long term it will show up in your body’s weight.
If you monitor your body’s weight regularly you will be alerted to any changes before they go out of control. In control means you know your weight and you know your clothing size. You can go to the store and try on Size X and be pretty confident it will fit. AND, you can get on a scale and be confident you know the answer within a pound or two. OK, an overweight person can know their size in clothes. But can you really? I was surprised almost every time I went to the stores for new clothes. I had no idea what my weight was and didn’t monitor it for years. The clothes you own can stretch out and fool you.
If you pay attention to how much you are eating – yes, counting calories and measuring portion sizes – you have more control than if you didn’t. Do you know how many calories you need to eat in a day or week to maintain your weight the same as last week? Leave aside trying to lose weight. Do you know your body well enough to keep your weight the same, for a year? How much do you have to eat to gain weight?
Know your body and know why you eat! You can learn your body and choose what reasons for eating you like best.
-The Doctor